Novelty Quotes

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Human nature craves novelty.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Novelty in all things is charming.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

There is no creation without tradition

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.

There’s nothing new. The novelty lies in being yourself.